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What kind of mineral is radium?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Radium is a white metal that does not occur in a free state; it must be refined from pitchblende and occurs naturally only as a disintegration product in the radioactive decay of thorium, uranium, or actinium.

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